Improvement in putting up bluing and other dyes



. companying drawing, forming part of this UNITED STATES PATENT-Canica. 1

EDWARD L. MOLINEUX, NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PUTTING UP lBLUINGI AND OTHER DYES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 72,524, dated December 24, 1867.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWARD L. MOLINEUX, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new-and useful Improvement in Preparing and Packing Soluble Colors and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the acspecification.

This invention relates to a new and improved method of preparing and packing for sale, transportation, andr use a preparation'of indigo, or what is known' in commerce as laundry-blue, and other substances of like nature; and the invention consists in providing a bag, constructed of any suitable material and in any suitable manner, wherein the bluing or other article is properly secured; and in providing a box or case, of suitable size and form, and lnade of metal, Wood, or any other suitable material, wherein the bag of soluble blue or dyeing substance is packed, ready for sale, transportation, and use.

The drawing represents a package made up according to my improvement.

Arepresents the box or package, and whichmay contain one or more bags; B, the bag which contains the bluing or other dye.

As this article has hitherto been prepared and sold in market, it has usually been in bulk, which rendered it necessary for the consumer to .prepare a properly-constructed bag and to transfer the coloring-matter thereto, causing much trouble and inconvenience by soiling` the iin gers or implements used.

I am aware that, to obviate these objections, the laundry-bluing has been prepared and sold in a liquid form heretofore; but, as the bluing-bag is preferred by all laundry-Women for imparting the desired color to the Water, it is presumed to be the best method, and with the view of preparing' the article for market so that it will be ready for safe transportation or use when sold, I have made the improve ment described.

By the .use of my package a place is at hand for the bag after use, as it is returned .to the box or case, instead of soiling a shelf or other article by its contact. A

The method of using the bluing-bag is so well understood by those interested that it need not be described, While the method of preparing and packing the article, and articles of a similar nature, for sale and transportation and use possesses advantages lwhich must be obvious to all. t

I do not confine myself strictly to the laundry bl'uing-bag in the application of my improvement, but to all soluble colors which may ge imparted to liquids by means of a flexible Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure` by Letters Patent- The method of preparing and packing soluble dyes or colors, substantially as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

f EDWARD L. MoLINnUX.

Witnesses:

CHARLEs LILLIE, WM. H. CRONK, Jr. 

